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Green notebook, leather spine & corners (8" x 5"); 366pp, MS. Rome 1819, containing...

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HD/14/j
Date
1819-1829
Description

Green notebook, leather spine & corners (8" x 5"); 366pp, MS. Rome 1819, containing philosophical and scientific notes, and notes on famous people by John Davy.

Pp.1-7 descriptive notes on travels

Pp.7-9 new analogies to the 2nd Dialogue

Pp.9-10 descriptive travel notes

Pp.10-13 new analogies to the 2nd Dialogue

Pp.13-15 travel notes

Pp.15-25 new analogies to the 2nd Dialogue

P.26 travel notes

Pp.27-35 new analogies to the 2nd Dialogue

P.36 travel notes

Pp.37-53 new analogies to the 2nd Dialogue

Pp.53-54 travel notes

Pp.54-56 description of travellers

Pp.57-68 travel notes

Pp.69-80 philosophical notes

Pp.81-87 travel notes

Pp.87-88 electrical experiments

Pp.88-89 occhiotelle and torpedoes

P.89 travel notes

Pp.91-97 philosophical notes

Pp.98-102 descriptive travel notes

Pp.102-104 occhiotelle and torpedoes

Pp.106-117 note for 3rd edition of Salmonia. 2 March 1829, on grayling

Pp.118-119 note on hair and feather

Pp.123-131 On the distinguished characters of Europe [by John Davy]

Pp.133-355 Notes for biography of Humphry Davy [by John Davy]: includes notes about travels and notes on La Place, Berthollet, Volta, Morichini, Gay-Lussac, Thenaud, Beddoes, Guyton de Morveau, Joseph Banks, Henry Cavendish, Sir Charles Blayden, Dalton, Hyde Wollaston, Mr Hatchett, Brande, William Allen, Pepys, Babington.

Pp.356-364 Dialogue; The Unknown

P.366 philosophical notes

Held by
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/45bf5562-27e3-4de0-8cf8-7757748512c1/

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Papers and correspondence of Sir Humphry Davy.

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Green notebook, leather spine & corners (8" x 5"); 366pp, MS. Rome 1819, containing...